The Chilmark Community Center Committee met for the first time Thursday to lay out an agenda and a possible path forward for issues surrounding the Chilmark Community Center.

Gov. Maura Healey visited the Island Thursday for a tour of the Vineyard Wind facility and to honor a local figure in youth sports.

We are now in the month when daylight prevails in buckets. With the first day of summer only two weeks away, we are experiencing late sunsets and early sunrises. If you like the night sky, it is now at a premium.

Twilight sticks around well after 8 p.m. and dawn comes at its earliest around 4 o'clock.

State cannabis regulators came to the Island Thursday to hear from local cannabis producers, retailers, and medical and recreational consumers who say that a ban on the transport of cannabis by ferry will put the Island’s legal cannabis sellers out of business.

For many students, activities, sports and clubs are a big part of their high school career. For Lyla Solway, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Class of 2024 valedictorian, it was sailing.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2024 is filled with juxtapositions. It is an independent-minded class that can also come together as a group with kindness and grace.

The rocky start to summer is emblematic of the Steamship Authority’s staffing woes, several Steamship employees said, and on any given day ferries can be one sick-day away from being tied up at the docks.

The West Tisbury Farmers' Market returns Saturday for its 50th season. Going back to 1974, the market has offered farmers a place to sell their produce and learn valuable lessons from each other.

As a conservation biologist on the Island for the past 30 years, I have become increasingly concerned about the future of our common pond turtles.

From the June 7, 1940 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: